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In the early 1900s, New York City began paying for land management in the Catskills watershed to ensure safe drinking water for the city, avoiding the cost of building an expensive water treatment plant.
New York City provides just one example of a growing number of programs — called payment...By Andrea Estradahttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018809/market-based-approachThursday, March 15, 2018 - 16:00Science and Technology @ UCSBReducing Collateral Damagehttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018796/reducing-collateral-damage
Healthier fish stocks. Higher catches. Profits from fishing. Is there a way to achieve these holy grails of commercial fisheries without harming endangered species that are caught incidentally?
A new UC Santa Barbara-led study has found that may indeed be possible about half the time. According to...By Julie Cohenhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018796/reducing-collateral-damageThursday, March 15, 2018 - 11:00Science and Technology @ UCSBRemembering Stephen Hawkinghttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018808/remembering-stephen-hawking
Stephen Hawking, who died Mar. 14 — Albert Einstein’s birthday and Pi Day — had a brilliant mind and a puckish sense of humor.
Gary Horowitz experienced it firsthand. Now a UC Santa Barbara physicist, Horowitz was a postdoctoral scholar when Hawking invited him to Cambridge for six weeks. At a...By Julie Cohen and Shelly Leachmanhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018808/remembering-stephen-hawkingThursday, March 15, 2018 - 09:30Science and Technology @ UCSBA Meeting of the Science Mindshttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018806/meeting-scientific-minds
Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University (front) joined some of the world’s leading physicists who came together at UCSB in 2001. Among others were, back, left to right, Joseph Polchinski of UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), who later received the Breakthrough Prize in...By Andrea Estradahttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018806/meeting-scientific-mindsWednesday, March 14, 2018 - 15:45Science and Technology @ UCSBSaving Liveshttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018805/saving-lives
Last year, 81 million people worldwide experienced severe food insecurity. About 80 percent of them live in Africa.
While much of that food insecurity relates to civil war and violence in places like South Sudan and Nigeria, a good portion also stems from a sequence of five severe droughts that...By Julie Cohenhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018805/saving-livesWednesday, March 14, 2018 - 10:30Science and Technology @ UCSBA Lesson from Darwinhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018791/lesson-darwin
When British naturalist Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he took notice of the giant kelp forests ringing the islands. He believed that if those forests were destroyed, a significant number of species would be lost. These underwater ecosystems, Darwin believed, could be...By Julie Cohenhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018791/lesson-darwinWednesday, March 14, 2018 - 01:00Science and Technology @ UCSBShrinking SWaPhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018792/shrinking-swap
If the parts in a satellite, a drone or other specialized device are large in size, weight and power consumption — in other words, if their SWaP is high — the device itself has to be bigger and heavier and is usually more expensive to build, launch or operate.
With a new grant, UC Santa Barbara...By Julie Cohenhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018792/shrinking-swapMonday, March 12, 2018 - 13:00Science and Technology @ UCSBGlass Mattershttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018793/glass-matters
Better known as glass, silica is a versatile material used in myriad industrial processes, from catalysis and filtration, to chromatography and nanofabrication. Yet despite its ubiquity in labs and cleanrooms, surprisingly little is known about silica’s surface interactions with water at a...By Sonia Fernandezhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018793/glass-mattersMonday, March 12, 2018 - 10:45Science and Technology @ UCSBWired for Soundhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018778/wired-sound
Meet ROVER. If you’re lucky — and trigger its heat sensors — it’ll roll up to you and sing a song.
This friendly robot is the creation of Hannah Wolfe, a graduate student researcher in UC Santa Barbara’s Media Arts and Technology program, who’s investigating robot-human interactions.
“I wanted to...By Sonia Fernandezhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018778/wired-soundWednesday, March 7, 2018 - 06:00Science and Technology @ UCSBSustainable Ocean Developmenthttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018768/sustainable-ocean-development
Earth’s vast and vital oceans are a critical source of economic productivity, but issues of space management, interindustry conflict and environmental degradation often limit sustainable commercial development.
Now, researchers have developed a new model that weighs the tradeoffs and opportunities...By Julie Cohenhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018768/sustainable-ocean-developmentMonday, March 5, 2018 - 10:00Science and Technology @ UCSBSaving Hawaii's Coralhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018762/saving-hawaiis-coral
Many of Hawaii’s once-thriving coral reefs are struggling to recover from recent extreme coral bleaching caused by rising water temperatures. These periodic increased temperatures combined with coastal runoff, fishing pressure and other impacts are all suspected of contributing to slow reef...By Jenny Seiferthttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018762/saving-hawaiis-coralThursday, March 1, 2018 - 11:45Science and Technology @ UCSBPointing Lighthttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018764/pointing-light
Without the vast, nearly infinite web of crisscrossing electromagnetic waves that travel invisibly through the air, the modern world would cease to exist. Transmitting digital data and sensing and returning information about the environment at the speed of light, these waves are important in many...By James Badhamhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018764/pointing-lightThursday, March 1, 2018 - 11:00Science and Technology @ UCSBEcological Honorshttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018763/science-action
UC Santa Barbara ecologist Douglas McCauley has been selected a 2018 early career fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). An assistant professor in UCSB’s Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (EEMB) and director of the Benioff Ocean Initiative, McCauley is one of seven ESA...By Julie Cohenhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018763/science-actionThursday, March 1, 2018 - 09:30Science and Technology @ UCSBDisappearing Acthttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018732/disappearing-act
The Asian tiger mosquito — carrier of such diseases as dengue, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya and Zika — appears to have vanished from Palmyra.
Not native to the small atoll 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, Aedes albopict likely came to Palmyra during World War II, when the United States...By Julie Cohenhttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018732/disappearing-actWednesday, February 28, 2018 - 09:30Science and Technology @ UCSBCarbon Neutrality in Three Stepshttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018754/carbon-neutrality-three-steps
Universities across the country have set ambitious goals to shrink their carbon footprints. The University of California launched its Carbon Neutrality Initiative in 2013, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2025. But amid the broad support for climate action within the UC system, the question of how...By Jenny Seiferthttp://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018754/carbon-neutrality-three-stepsTuesday, February 27, 2018 - 08:30Science and Technology @ UCSB